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It may not be Christmas Day, yet the reaction of everyone's least favourite Potions professor isn't any less "Bah Humbug." Severus Snape is determined to avoid attention this Valentine's Day, yet a certain someone is as least as determined to bestow it upon him. What is the identity of his secret admirer? Set during Harry Potter's second year.

Rolanda Hooch has always had peaceful, pleasant recurring dreams about her heritage. One night, however, her dream quickly becomes a nightmare...

See the fates of two Gryffindors in a Voldemort-victorious A.U., where Death Eaters and Umbrors dog the Potterists.

While it\'s very interesting that Harry, Ron, and Hermione are taking off to hunt down Horcruxes, Jimmy Peakes, Ritchie Coote, and Demelza Robins are a bit more concerned with the state of their Quidditch team. After all, without a Seeker and a Keeper, how will they ever win the Quidditch Cup? As they discuss potential replacements, their conversation takes some interesting turns.

Eileen Prince has only been glimpsed as a sullen girl and a cowering woman. Here's another quick look at a resolutely quiet witch.

Everyone's lives are put in jeopardy when a secret revealed causes identity confusion and a tangle of assassins after the Boy-Who-Lived. When the hunter becomes the hunted, who can put things right? A tale of love, family, lies and blackmail.

"We want to know more about people who fail. We care about people who are scared, who act foolishly, who are tricked by their vanity and trapped by their desires ... Flawed characters are the unforgettable ones" -- Susan Shaughnessy. Half-blood Slytherin Millicent Bulstrode reflects on her time at Hogwarts, the years of wasted effort she put in trying to be accepted by the popular students of her House, and what she intends to do about it. [Written for the femgenficathon.]

The hand didn't let go but I gradually became aware that the ceiling was moving. How odd. I'd never heard of that before. Stairways, yes, but not the ceilings. But then I didn't usually look at the ceilings. That would change now! From this moment forward, I will always look up to the ceilings. They would be sacred. ...James is stuck to Lily. Literally...

In the world of Harry Potter, things never turn out well. If only his hopes weren't always so quickly shattered. AU, creature!fic, slash, and depictions of child abuse.

They all thought that she was like them. A normal, pureblooded Slytherin. But she's not. Millicent Bullstrode has her own secrets.

A missing moment fic, explaining exactly how Fleur Delacour got back to shore after being attacked by grindylows in the Second Task.

It's two in the morning, and Ginny's alone in the Grimmauld Place kitchen: "Looking at the whitewashed wall opposite her, Ginny sighed, sensing the ghosts of the place--”real ghosts, imagined ghosts, metaphoric ghosts--”swirling around the damp, heavy pile above her head."

Hannah fancies Neville, Neville fancies Hannah - but they're both too shy to make the first move. Drastic measures may be called for . . .

Ted was a Muggle-born. Andromeda was a pure-blood from one of the greatest Wizarding families in history. Until she married him. We know them as the parents of Nymphadora Tonks. This is their story. And just wait until you find out who’s telling it!

Eight-year-old Harry writes a letter to Father Christmas like every year. Will Father Christmas listen to him for once? Completely AU, partly OOC, Abuse/Neglect!Dursleys, sick!Harry.

Leanne has just been given the very worst shock her life, courtesy of her friend Katie Bell. Now, alone in an empty ward with Madame Pomfrey, she spills all that she can spill...

Set in HBP. While thinking about death, Draco stumbles across a ghost in a bathroom. When she comforts him, Draco realises that death may not be as bad as it once seemed.

Andromeda Black and Fabian Prewett are slumming it on their Muggle night out. Only it doesn't end the way either of them expect. Co-winner of FictionAlley's July 2007 Challenge.

"Though she wasn't given to obvious facial animation in general, Alicia always secretly admired how well the average Slytherin could nail a smirk. Gryffindors either ended up looking like they had some sort of facial tic or just caught a whiff of something unpleasant." Recent graduate Alicia Spinnet is at Diagon Alley when she has a surprising encounter with an old school rival, who seeks to engage her company.

"It's been coming on for a while," said Percy ... "But I had to find a way out and it's not so easy at the Ministry, they're imprisoning traitors all the time." (DH, ch30). This is Percy's journey to that point.

"I have information as to the whereabouts of the missing wizard, Caradoc Dearborn. He is alive, but imprisoned, and may be in danger..." So reads the letter Frank Longbottom receives one day at the Ministry. Voldemort has met his doom. It is a time of newfound hope; the wizarding world is safe once again. Isn't it?

Growing up, Harry Potter became a smartass. Now he's starting Hogwarts, with trusty sidekick Millicent Bulstrode, a question for everything, and a cheerfully sarcastic demeanor that makes everyone want to smack him. And apparently there's death lurking in the third floor corridor. That's gonna end well.

Minerva McGonagall is in love with Albus Dumbledore, but he is married and not in love with her. Working on a project, she travels sideways through time, and falls in love with someone who actually loves her back.

A look at Alice and Frank Longbottom's life together while they helped the Order fight Voldemort. Cameos from Baby Neville, Augusta, and Moody.

A songfic about Katie and Remus. Katie is standing on the edge of a cliff, and she's preparing to jump. Remus intervenes - who will get their way?

By a chance encounter Buffy and Company learn of a whole new magical world they never knew existed and all the problems this world is having. Will the Scoobies help the wizarding world? Will the wizarding world want there help? What will happen when the Scoobies pasts are revealed? Can some things be forgiven? A/N- I know there are a lot of OC's, but these are all Buffy people. I only made up a couple characters. All other OC character are established in either the Buffy-verse and Harry Potter-verse.

Inspector Weatherby, witch, comes face-to-face with the masked terrorist known as 'V'. One-shot with a surprise twist.

Katie Bell never knew her father, but it never really bothered her. She had her mother, her grandfather, and her daydreams about Oliver Wood to occupy her time. But what happens when lies from her mother's past threaten to affect her future? (Takes place during OotP)

Millicent Bulstrode, in the Fifty Galleons universe.

"The hardest part about taking care of a person dying inch-by-inch isn't the sleepless nights, the wrenched back from lifting once (or twenty times) too often, or the isolation. The hardest part is afterwards." Gregory Goyle/Millicent Bulstrode (GG/MB) (Sequel to 'Memory Like Old Lace')

"So we know that, near the end of her pregnancy, Merope was alone in London and in desperate need of gold, desperate enough to sell her one and only valuable possession, the locket that was one of Marvolo's treasured family heirlooms." What really happened there?

Remus Lupin has a particular interest in Luna Lovegood. Purely paternal, of course.

Someone gets an unexpected visitor

Harry learns the horrible truth of what the future holds and begins his quest to become the perfect wizard and change the future of death and destruction he's foreseen. Not yet realizing what the consequences of his actions will be, he finds himself becoming a catalyst of a revolution against centuries of oppression. 4th Year AU, Harry & Katie Bell relationship.

Adonis Rookwood was brought under mysterious circumstances to the Rookwood household, the most notorious and wealthy Wizarding clan in Britain, on the day of his birth. Katherine Reynold is a driven young witch who lost her mother to the hands of war. So what do these two have in common? Lord Voldemort. Their meeting was no coincidence, for there are no real coincidences. And as their seemingly different worlds clash, both begin to unravel Lord Voldemort's hidden past through cryptic objects, dangerous encounters, and tales from the most unlikely of people. Throughout their journey, not only do they learn of how Tom Riddle became the Dark Lord, but of themselves, and what it truly means to be human.

There's an adventurer, a schemer, and a rapscallion...and then there's Peter. And he certainly never dreamed that this would happen. Marauder-era genfic, AU theme. But it could happen. With Professor Sprout and Hagrid. This was for the January 2006 challenge on the omniocular community on livejournal. Special thanks to Pavonis for "Kate" and the Hanging Basket inclusion. Title taken from the Rolling Stones song.

"His back was to me, but somehow I knew it was him. And what surprised me even more was that somehow I knew he should not have been there. After all, it isn't every day you run into supposedly dead ex-boyfriends." Bertha Jorkins is on vacation. Now if only she can remember why Peter is supposed to be dead...

What's life like when your mum is a serial killer, your dad has just remarried, and it's your first year in Slytherin? Well, just ask Blaise Zabini! Includes Slytherin!Trio elements.

Did Amelia Bones's murder affect her niece, and what would it have to do with Marietta Edgecombe's magic-induced acne? A look at an unplanned interaction between two very different students. Set during HBP, written for the Broken Quill challenge at Fiction Alley.

In 1942, with the Muggle world at war and the Wizarding World in chaos, the situation at Hogwarts is tense, with the relationship between Muggleborns and purebloods already strained to breaking point. Then the Chamber of Secrets is opened... A look at a Hogwarts troubled by war, within and without.

A Slytherin reflects on how her House works.

"Sunlight beams pleasantly onto the nape of my neck, warming my body delightfully whilst Alice blows bubbles somewhat dreamily into that un-containable Zen that floats above us." Lily Evans and best friend, Alice Eston, enjoy their last carefree day on the Hogwarts grounds during a free period, talking about love, cheating and Frank Longbottom. That's before a certain James Potter turns up.

“In her house, a small one-story in a suburb of Manchester, she has surrounded herself with gold-framed pictures. Memories. Remembrances of times gone by.” A one shot story that looks at Gladys Gudgeon and her possible reasons for writing to Gilderoy.

The plight of most of the Slytherins during Chamber of Secrets. Edited to be HBP-compliant, with the narrator changed.

My response to LemonFresh's Username Challenge, wherein one must write a fic around their FAP username. In case you missed it, my username is Hooligan.

Hannah Abbott is a typical Hufflepuff, isn't she? She's safe, loyal and boring.

Harry didn't know it, but Neville and Luna weren't the only ones who answered Hermione's summons the night Dumbledore died. This is Susan's story.

Quinnellia Chamberlain, aka Quinn, has come to Hogwarts from the United States to finish her magical education. She is befriended by Lily Evans and her dormmates and for the first time in her life has good friends, is getting good marks, and is staying out of trouble. Until she tries out for the Quidditch team and is told by the Captin, James Potter, that girls don't play Quidditch at Hogwarts. Can Quinn and Lily beat some sense into James? Moreover, can Quinn stop thinking about her own problems long enough to help Lily with her own crisis

Sirius and Regulus need each other, they're brothers after all. But Regulus can't remain the boy Sirius loves, and change is bound to happen.

Frank Longbottom and fellow Auror Alice Belby talk after Frank uses an Unforgivable Curse for the first time.

It's the seventh year at Hogwarts. Several students are missing, but there are others that will pick up the slack. Particularly in Slytherin.

An Umbridgebashing fic. Professor Trelawney is about to be sacked by the High Inquisitor, but refuses to leave. And a seer can be very tricky to nail down...

You learn a lot of interesting things working at a bar... very short oneshot of Madam Rosmerta's views on You-Know-Who, Harry Potter, and her lot in life.

Throughout their years at Hogwarts the Marauders have always lived their lives in the same way, making the same choices and decisions over and over without change. Lily has always pushed James away in fear that if she lets her guard down he will let her down. Aurora is positive she's not in love with Remus and won't hear any different because she is ultimately afraid of what will happen if she faces her emotions. Raine is afraid to speak. Peter has always hid in the shadows of his three best mates. Well, this year they all decided that it is time for change. This is the year they never expected to come.

Hannah Abbot's life is shattered when she receives the news of her mother's death, but can anyone help to come to terms with her grief?

A Remus/Penelope angst. Penelope Clearwater does not love Percy Weasley, and she certainly didn't expect to fall in love with Remus Lupin. A one-shot ficlet taking place during/after PoA.

Merlin, what a waste of time. If knowing the future were as easy as looking at leaves in a teacup... Eileen took the final sip, then held the cup in her left hand and swirled vigorously. Three times, clockwise, the way Professor Mopsus had taught them. She drained the dregs, put the cup back down on the saucer, and critically peered inside. It looked like...clumps of damp tea leaves.

There was the room... The meeting... The dwindling sunlight, and her slightly flickering smile... This was the moment Leanne had been pondering about for years... This was a beginning.

Professors Slughorn and Sinistra plot their way through a thoroughly Slytherin engagement. BeST's response to the June 2007 FA wedding challenge.

After the birth of her third child, Fleur Weasley takes a look at her life and contemplate how she got here. Surely she never set out to be a mother of such a large family at such a young age. How did this happen, and is she even fit to serve this role?

A young lady is held captive in a cave in the Forbidden Forest.

George's birthday is never truly happy. Will this year be any different?

Headmistress Granger has some ideas for modernizing the school's curriculum. Severus Snape is damned if he'll let her get away with it. And the staff is stuck at Hogwarts for the summer until there is an agreement. Pure crackfic written for the Winter 2009 SSHG Exchange on LJ.

March 2007 FA Potions Challenge: Perenelle Flamel gave pumpkin juice to Hedwig.

Falling into his arms, stumbling into his love, was her desire, her wish. Merope Gaunt had watched Tom Riddle for what seemed an eternity, each glance at him a skip in her heartbeat. After a meeting one rainy day, she realizes that what she desires might be just out of reach...

Megan Jones is a young woman trying to make her way in the world hampered by the very things that haunt many a young woman in her late teens. There are crushes and romantic entanglements to sort through, an unhappy family life, the thirst to prove herself and the obligatory identity crisis. Oh yes, and there's the bit about her secretly joining the Dark Side....

Peter and Alice are on an Order mission, but will the memory of their night together ruin it all?

Neville, along with the company of three members of Hufflepuff, make their way through the school corridors in the dead of night so that they can have an important document sent to the Order. But then, they are caught and taken straight to the new headmaster, Professor Snape, so that he can deal with this form of treason personally. But the way he actually reacts leaves the four of them confused and...still confused

After being tortured into insanity, Alice and Frank Longbottom live in a closed ward for permanent spell damage at Saint Mungo's. The Healers say they cannot recognize their family members. The Healers call them insane. Alice Longbottom drifts through time, experiencing small blips of sanity when her son, Neville, comes to visit. This is her story.

Bitter yet conservative, Marietta feels compelled to return for her final year of schooling at Hogwarts. But while the first step - catching the train - may not be the hardest, it certainly still sucks. A Cho/Marietta friendship.

"The first ever Atlantic broom crossing [was] by Jocunda Sykes in 1935" (Kennilworthy Whisp,

Short one-shot. Emotions, the future, and the hope of being accepted have effected this well know character. Her name is never mentioned so figure it out on your own. I'm guessing here, painting a picture of a character I've never seen painted before. A student at Hogwarts finds herself losing her knowlege and power as she begins to fear a future she cannot see. She showers her reality with deceit until she cannot find the truth amongst the lies.

Dolores Umbridge pays for her crimes.

"When Salazar tells me I am the Messiah come forth a second time, I incline to agree and so he asks whether he might please cut off my wings." - Myrtle’s death triggers a small transformation in Hogwarts’ finest mental wreck.

When three could have been one. The Amelia Bones story.

Harry Potter was unjustifiably tried in August for underage magic, but after successfully appealing, he rightfully returned to Hogwarts for his fifth year. Now, an unbelievable three months later, Harry is wrongly on CRIMINAL trial for a murder charge which could land him an Azkaban life sentence. Ultimately, Harry must defeat this unrighteous injustice before it steals his life away! Thus, with Umbridge as the fierce prosecutor, Dumbledore as his passionate defender, and Bones as the fair-minded judge, A GRANDIOSE SHOWDOWN TRANSPIRES!!!

OOTP fic. Percy Weasley and Penelope Clearwater learn to live with what little they can have.

Morena Serran came from a rich wizarding family, but lived in a small farmhouse in rural Ireland with a selfish and neglectful father and a timid and scared mother. She was almost grateful when she came home from her last year of Hogwarts and found that she could leave that life behind. Her freedom, however, would come at a steep price: she would be forced into servitude for a dangerous sorcerer looking for a few items that would help him on his way to bring the wizarding world to a reign over all Muggles, and to refuse the request would practically be suicide.

POST DH/EWE. Severus Snape escapes death by an enchantment that takes him back to 1848, and he starts a new life. Hermione Granger discovers a magic writing desk, the sole link to his former existence. They write to each other, healing the ravages of war.

"'And Millicent Bulstrode's no pixie'" (COS 23) One Shot

As taken from "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"

Susan and Hermione lie unconcious in the Hospital Wing. Ernie and Ron despair. This fic shows you a snap-shot of Ernie's torment, and what is going on in his head during this trauma. (Songfic)

Alicia Spinnet was looking forward to her last term at Hogwarts with rapt anticipation. Until, that is, the summer before seventh year dealt her a crippling blow: the death of her father. Condemned to live alone with her detached mother and faced with the breaking of a treasured frindship, her only source of solace is a mysterious letter that plunges her into a world of balls, banquets, and international Quidditch.

After the fiasco at the Department Of Mysteries, Severus Snape gets two for the price of one during a run-in with Neville Longbottom... Humour, UK English, as canon as I can make it.

Emmeline Vance has always hated stereotypes.

She plotted and planned for months. She memorized his timetable. She watched him in lessons, and now, her plan was to be put in action. (Zacharias Smith/Daphne Greengrass)

Ginny was given a strange rock in Knockturn Alley when she was three. Now, having unpacked at her new home, she finds the rock again. Once she accidentally summons the girl who first gave it to her, she realizes it is gone. Now, the two set out on a quest to save wizardkind from the power and mystery of the seven-pointed Daavidus.

A mysterious corpse clad on a shabby old robe is a puzzle for the police, but not for the Muggle Interface Team.

She brought him into the fold, and everything fell into place from there. A tale of love and redemption.

A trivial decision, perhaps ... but Marietta hates the one she made. Now she's stuck studying Arithmancy (I'd blame her mother) while her Ravenclaw peers discuss the Muggle World. Can anything be done?

Hannah and Neville hire Lee Jordan to help with the pub. Written for the Rarepair Shorts Number Game Ficathon 2009 on Life Journal.

"A year, a salvation of one year for her to gather the child and run. And the child would have to go with her, because she could not leave behind a little girl in this house." Pregnant with Morfin's child, Merope longs to escape to a life with Tom, and a better world for the child she hopes will be a girl.

In retrospect, Harry should've known that Umbridge's field trip to the ancient springs of Jusenkyo would end badly for everyone. Having fallen into the Springs of the Drowned Emo and Drowned Emu, Harry supposes he's luckier than, say, Snape (Spring of the Drowned Unicorn) or Zacharias Smith (Spring of the Drowned Flea Circus), but there are more problems in the upcoming year than just the curses: Voldemort takes advantage of his own cursed form to infiltrate Hogwarts as Luna's new pet bunny. And there's really no way to explain Lucius Malfoy, the benevolent Buddhist monk. (AU OotP; Ranma 1/2 crossover)

When Oliver Wood's daughter, Olivia, goes to Hogwarts, he wants her to play Quidditch. But does she want to? Olivia makes new friends and has to make her own choices too. But what will Dad say?

Oliver lands in hospital with a minor curse and gets reacquainted with Trainee Healer Katie Bell. Originally written for the hp_rarities exchange on LJ. Oneshot.

Frank Longbottom and his girlfriend Alice are on their way to spend their Easter holiday at Frank's house. Now all he has to do is figure out how he's going to explain their new relationship status to his mother.

Hannah enters Hogwarts two years late and has to learn seven years' worth of work in five years. Lily Evans makes friends with Hannah, and tries (unsuccessfully) to convince herself she hates James Potter. Remus' 'secret' is almost revealed to the whole school. All in all an average time at Hogwarts.

This is the first of my Backdrop Series, a series focusing on several background characters. This is about Merope Gaunt, and is a short look at her dependance on others. She is crazy as all get out, but in her own special way.

Who is Hestia Jones and why is she fighting Lord Voldemort?